Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Manuscript Cookbook collection includes 125 cookbooks with culinary recipes and home remedies dating from the early 16th century to the late 20th century. The cookbooks originate from various countries, such as Austria (1), Denmark (1), England (25), France (1), Germany (7), Ireland (3), Mexico (5), Palestine (1), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (2), and the United States (42). The books vary in size and shape and are almost exclusively handwritten. Although most are written in English, other languages include German (10), French (2), Danish (1), and Hebrew (1).

Additional Information: Approximately 100 pages of handwritten recipes in English. Inserted clippings and prescriptions/remedies. Front and back cover detached. Recipe written inside back cover. Seller information available (B-7).

Additional Information: Approximately 22p of handwritten recipes in English. Thin book with marbled covers, part of back cover missing. Seller information available. (B-7)

Item 59: Unknown Author. N/A

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Unknown

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: Approximately 28p of handwritten recipes in English. Covers are missing and pages have been sewn together by hand. Seller information available. (B-7)

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Item 60: Hastings, Mary Page. N/A, early 1800s

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: United States

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: Believed to have been given to her by her sister, Olivia Page; handwritten in two hands. Included in Page Family Papers.

Item 61: Lutz, Werner. Livre de Recettes, 1930-1947

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Switzerland

Number of Pages with Recipes: 226

Additional Information: 226p of recipes handwritten in French. Lutz was a professional chef and the first page documents his career through 1947. Seller information available.

Item 62: Unknown Author. N/A, 1851

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: England (Wiltshire?)

Number of Pages with Recipes: 36

Additional Information: 31p of handwritten recipes, 5 pages of home remedies (at the back), one insert and an index. Many recipes are attributed. Seller information available.

Item 63: Weigel, Clara. N/A, 1859

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Number of Pages with Recipes: 58

Additional Information: 58p of handwritten recipes in English and German. Has several ink illustrations. Seller information available.

Item 64: Hoffman, Therese. N/A, 1837

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Vienna, Austria

Number of Pages with Recipes: 69

Additional Information: Title page with name, date, and place written in different hand. 67 recipes neatly handwritten in German. Two page index at back. Seller information available.

Item 65: Ehardt, Sofie. N/A, 1904-

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Altensteig Neubollingerhof, Germany

Number of Pages with Recipes: 170

Additional Information: Approximately 170p og recipes in English and German. Some clipped English recipes throughout. First 213p are numbered. In numbered pages there are several entries from August 1904 and one dated Ostern 1910. Index at back. Seller information available.

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Item 66: Jones, J.C. Army Book 136, 1930-1940

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: United States

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: English. 53 recipes, 32 desserts listed in one end of the book, 22 main dishes begin at other end of the book; all in same hand.

Item 67: Unknown Author. Cahier de Confiseur, 1740s

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: France

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: 16 recipes contained in a vellum wallet binding, written in French.

Item 68: Roberts, Jemima. Recipe Book: Miss Jemima Roberts, 1800

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Unknown

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: N/A

Item 69: Unknown Author. Cooking, 1840-1860

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Hudson River Valley area

Number of Pages with Recipes: 36

Additional Information: N/A

Item 70: Unknown Author. N/A, 1766

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: England

Number of Pages with Recipes: 60

Additional Information: English country manuscript, 60p of text plus blank leaves. Bound in full sheep measuring 8x6 1/4 x 3/4 inches. Written in at least two 18th century hands that are intermixed; recipes and some remedies from cattle and horses. Seller information available.

Item 71: Unknown Author. N/A, 1790-1810

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Ireland

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: Household manuscript containing culinary and medicinal recipes. Written in two different hands, at each end. Contains 85 recipes and 46 medical and herbal remedies. Seller information available.

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Item 72: Pooley, Miss Mary. N/A, 1740-1800

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Norfold, England.

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: 3 sections, each in different hand and bound together, inscribed at end of each section, "Mrs. Mary Pooley/ Her book, June ye 18th 1740." Some recipes are attributed to individuals but only a few appear to be published authors. Also includes remedies. Seller information available.

Item 73: Unknown Author. N/A, mid 1600s

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Unknown

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: Contains English culinary recipes and household remedies. Recipes not ascribed and many likely to be original, unbound sheets in original stitching. Seller information available.

Item 74: Unknown Author. N/A, 18th-19th century

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Unknown

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: Household recipes and remedies. Laid in front is section of household remedies apparently from the late 18th century. Bound section contains culinary recipes and household remedies; also loosely inserted recipes and advertisements at the end which apparently came from someone who had possession of the volume in the early 20th century. Seller information available.

Item 75: Unknown Author. N/A, 18th-19th century

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Unknown

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: Culinary recipes in English. Written in at least 2 hands; first mid to late 18th century; a few recipes in the middle in another hand before changing to a late 18th early 19th century hand. The hand stitched cloth covering includes a pouch in the rear that includes packet of approximately 30 loose sheets with recipes and remedies which appear to be 19th century. Seller information available.

Item 76: Unknown Author. B. Beard her Book, 1740-1797

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Unknown

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: English cullinary recipes. Written in two hands, appears to have been an account book; earlier recipes original, presumably passed from mother to daughter or between friends. Recipe pages numbered through 123 after which pages are loose with pencil doodles, several notes and shopping lists; dates April 1795 and March 1797 appear. Volume handed down to younger family member who continued to add newer recipes through end of 18th century. Seller information available.

Additional Information: Comments on many of the recipes, handwritten in two hands, part of manuscript appears to have been written during the Great Irish Famine, good condition, inscription on back cover.

Item 80: Unknown Author. Receipts, 1780-1820

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Unknown

Number of Pages with Recipes: 187

Additional Information: 187 handwritten recipes, three different hands, original recipes and documented recipes, loose recipes and articles in back.

Additional Information: measurement tables on both covers, indexed, pasted in newspaper clippings, compiled recipes from other ladies in town, loss to head and food of spine-wear, reverse quarter calf binding

Additional Information: Original copy plus typed transcript. Selected list of important aspects of California viticulture. Supposedly the "first work of its kind on California viticulture."

Item 87: Giffard, Anne. N/A, 1765

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: United States

Number of Pages with Recipes: 196

Additional Information: 96p of recipes and home remedies, written in multiple hands throughout. First text leaf missing. Original binding. Inscription in front "Anne Giffard/ a very notable woman/ 1765."

Additional Information: 60p of recipes plus 34p price of goods and labor. Professional operation recipes for large amount of people, possibly US Army. Some offset from mold to a few pages. Period calf.

Additional Information: Large ledger book filled with hundreds of manuscript recipes, newspaper clippings, measures and kitchen advice. 3/4 leather and cloth with pictpral cover label. Anne Looney was born in Ireland but immigrated to the United States in 1880. Handwritten table of contents in front- accurate. Few loose pages.

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Item 103: Blake, Mrs. Frank D. N/A, 1866

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Black Creek, South Carolina

Number of Pages with Recipes: 98

Additional Information: 36p blank pages. Disbound in loose signatures and leaves, small rips and pieces torn away from first leaf, stained throughout from use. "Southern Cooking Immediately After the Civil War."

Item 104: Unknown Author. N/A, c1838

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Unknown

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: Cook book was prepared before August 28, 1838 and used in the family until May 1940. Small blue book, no binding.

Item 105: Haren, Jenna C. N/A, 1873

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Rean's County, NY

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: Partially used as a receipt book in another hand.

Item 106: Panama Rose. The Hashish Cookbook, 1966

Publisher: Gnaoua Press

Publication Location:

Number of Pages with Recipes:20

Additional Information: Printed cookbook, along with sketches of illustrations and additional copies of pages in book posted on cardstock.

Additional Information: Written in German in one or two hands. Floral pastepaper boards, taking up the first 32 pages of a larger notebook. Recipes on front and back, generally one or two recipes per page. Two recipes and an index laid in- one on the rear of a 1942 magazine page from Munich during World War II.

Item 109: Unknown Author, N/A, c1900s

Publisher: Unknown

Publication Location: Unknown

Number of Pages with Recipes: 75

Additional Information: Mexican cookbook written in Spanish in one or two hands, ca. early 20th century. 75 pages of recipes, most recipes taking a page or two, a few with 2 per page. Many chicken recipes along with fritters, desserts, pasta, and a few European recipes.

Additional Information: Oblong octavo. Bound on eighteeth century sheep over marbled boards, rubbed and somewhat worn, but sound, occasional light staining and other signs of use. Text is written at both ends with blank leafs between.

Item 112: Brown, H. Mrs; Olivier, Mrs. N/A, c1820

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: N/A

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Addtional Information: Cover is heavily rubbed, some spotting and staining to text. Includes some recipes copied from printed sources and loose letters.

Additional Information: Rubbing and wear to edges, few minor marks to text. Several loosely inserted recipes. There is a quick portrait sketch of a young woman loosely inserted.

Item 114: Luttrell, Margaret. Madam Luttrell's Book of the Most Excellent Rec[eip]ts., 1748-1878

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: Dunster Castle, Somerset

Number of Pages with Recipes: N/A

Additional Information: This is a family household and receipt book. Written in multiple hands. Some foxing to prelims and rear endpapers. There are 112 recipes from the eighteenth century and 69 from the nineteenth century.

Additional Information: The volume retains its original vellum binging. Remedies interspersed throughout the manuscript. Several pages are loose and binding is coming undone from pages with significant damage to cover.

Item 119: N/A. Receipts/2r Book wrote 1796, c1795-1796

Publisher: N/A

Publication Location: England

Number of Pages with Recipes: 28 leaves, text on both sides

Additional Information: Volume is bound in 18th century marbled paper wrappers, rubbed and some wear. Text is written on both sides of the pages. Wrappers are seperating at corners.